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Felidar Sovereign
Alternate Win Condition. Probably works better with Trostani as commander due to the increased life gain, but there's quite a bit of life gain in this deck regardless, so it may work.

$1 - $5

Storm Herd
Another mass token maker, but with 1/1 fliers (evasion is nice)

Aetherflux Reservoir
Alternate win condition. Probably better with Trostani as commander as you need to be able to absorb a loss of 50 life, but even in commander, most other people won't be able to say the same.

Beastmaster Ascension
Win condition. With a wide board, +5/+5 is huge. Also creatures enter the battlefield with the +5/+5, so with Trostani out that's some good extra life gain.

6 days ago

Cool deck! I thought I'd take a glance at your deck since you were kind enough to upvote mine. I love vampires too, and my Edgar Markov deck has gone through about a million different variations haha. I'll throw out a couple suggestions. I tried to keep my suggestions cheap, since you said you are on a budget.

Radiant Destiny: This card seems like it would be a better version of Intangible Virtue. It can buff all your vampires, not just the tokens, and give your whole board vigilance. It should be easy enough to trigger ascend, since you will have a bunch of free vampire tokens to get to 10 permanents in play.

Dark Prophecy: The triple black casting cost can be tricky when building a tri-color mana base on a budget, but this will trigger on your token deaths as well. For that reason, I think it could replace Midnight Reaper, since the reaper doesn't draw for your token deaths. It can be a bit risky with a large board, but it would ensure you will never run out of cards in hand again. Plus, it is pretty cheap!

Divine Visitation: This might be a fun option for you to consider. It would turn Edgar's eminence ability into providing a flying angel on every vampire cast! It doesn't fit with the vampire tribal theme, but it would be a fun card.

As far as card draw goes, I think you should strongly consider Night's Whisper, Sign in Blood, Painful Truths, and Read the Bones. Bloodtracker is also a good option to consider, and also turns Edgar's +1/+1 counters he gives into card draw. You might also consider Dusk / Dawn, Fell the Mighty, and Citywide Bust as boardwipes. These tend to let smaller creatures live, and many of your vampires (especially the tokens) would be small enough to survive the boardwipe. Dusk / Dawn could also function as card draw if you are desperate, since you can cast it from your grave to return a bunch of vampires to your hand.

6 days ago

All of the Leylines are great if you can bank on laying them Turn 1. Unfortunately this means one is generally left in the position of needing to "mulligan down" until getting one, resulting in the need to run 3 or 4 copies. All of the Leylines are remarkably underpowered for their mana costs, with each having much cheaper mana costs and better options for any turn other than #1 (like Intangible Virtue vs. Leyline of the Meek, making their only real advantage being the freebie Turn 1 drop. Unless I'm running a specific combo off of them and have room for 4 copies, I generally leave Leylines out of my decks.

The other suggestions may or may not work for you on mana costs for their yield depending on how the deck plays, but I think beefing up the tokens even before they all become dragons (at which point they're still tokens too obviously) is a solid move.

1 week ago

Oh and these are two VERY food cards to have in this deck, I'm linking them how ever I haven't checked the price before linking, I wouldn't be surprised if one is kinda expensive due to it sees SOME modern play...

1 month ago

gandalfguyysnp thanks for the suggestions. The problem I have with Wake the Reflections is that it is too inconsistent. While sometimes it can be explosive, other times it's just a dead draw. I feel this card would be better if it was an instant instead of a sorcery, which is why I went with Rootborn Defenses (even though Rootborn can be a dead draw too). That way I don't have to commit to going wide on my main-phase, where it will be more susceptible to my opponents sorcery sweepers. However, you're right that Intangible Virtue is pretty bonkers in this deck, so it probably makes more sense to move Rootborn to the sideboard.

I feel that Path to Exile is just too good to pass up. I'd say it's necessary for almost any deck that plays white. The card is just too much value, and there are too many threats that dodge Selesnya Charm. That's just my opinion though.

1 month ago

This is a pretty good deck, it really caught my eye, since I recently started on a deck similar to this spamming those tokens. A couple suggestions that I have found from my deck.
Wake the Reflections is a really good card in this deck, just imagine creating a 5/5 or 3/3 for 1 mana. Also I'd put the Intangible Virtue into the deck, it is really powerful. I'd suggest taking out the Rootborn Defenses, since, you should be creating tokens fast enough that you won't need to protect them. Also the path to exile could be taken out, since that really could just be on the sideboard, and you already have a remove card with Selesnya Charm.
Lastly, I'm not sure if you already own all these cards, but Anointed Procession does the same thing as Parallel Lives, but for about half the price.

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